Honey bees face many threats today. Habitat loss and pesticides often get the most attention. But one of the most damaging enemies is much smaller. A parasite called Varroa destructor has become one ...

For decades, beekeepers have fought a tiny parasite called Varroa destructor, which has devastated honey-bee colonies around the world. But an even deadlier mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae – or “tropi” ...

TESTING has confirmed a colony of bees that arrived in a container at the Port of Melbourne last month was infected with varroa destructor. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Melanie Curtis said ...

Tests with fake bee larvae reveal that a “vampire” mite attacking honeybees may not be so much a bloodsucker as a fat slurper. The ominously named Varroa destructor mite invaded North America in the ...

The parasitic bee mite Varroa destructor, which can mimic the chemical composition of its host's cuticle, is also capable of adapting this composition according to the bee species that it infests.

The Varroa destructor mite may be tiny — only a millimetre or two long — but it poses a massive threat to honey bees, beekeepers and honey producers, and agricultural sectors that largely rely on bees ...

The drastic decline in global honeybee populations is no secret. The phenomenon has been named “colony collapse syndrome,” and though it’s not clear what factors led up to it, entomologist Samuel ...

Further samples from recreational and commercial apiaries are being tested, with affected hives to be treated to control the mite. Varroa destructor mite has been found in southern Queensland, the ...

Somewhere in the scrubby hills east of San Diego, feral honeybee colonies are doing something that commercial beekeepers ...